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and south on the town line between Ellery and Ellicott and about 60 

 rods north of the lake road, on the top of a ridge of land is a 

 (natural?) mound once used by the aborigines. Part of it has been 

 moved away to improve the road. There many human bones have 

 been found. It was large and conspicuous. When examined by Wil- 

 liam Bugbee and the writer in 1875, it was 55 feet in diameter at the 

 base, 10 feet high, and quite flat on top where it was 25 feet in 

 diameter. Before it was disturbed its dimensions were greater. The 

 evidences show that it had been used by three races: first by the 

 aborigines ; a human skeleton and two knives bearing French inscrip- 

 tions which had been buried there show that it had been used by the 

 French ; the bones of a white person better preserved show that it 

 was the burial place of some family subsequent to the settlement. 



Carroll. At Fewsburg in Carroll on the south side of Frew's 

 run where John Frew located his sawmill, W r illiam Reid Jones when 

 grading ground for his dwelling uncovered the bones of several per- 

 sons, which seemed to have been interred in a sitting position. With 

 them were found flint arrowheads, stone pipes and two stone axes. 



At Fentonville evidences have been found, and not far from the 

 village human bones have been found in great abundance. A skele- 

 ton of a man was found under a tree. 



Chemung County 



General occupation. At the opening of the colonial period 

 Chemung county seems to have been occupied by one of the eastern 

 branches of the Iroquois stock. There were perhaps the Andaste 

 and later Gachoi or Cachoeos, 1 the names appearing on some Dutch 

 maps of 1614 and 1616. They were apparently at war with some 

 of the members of the Iroquois conferederacy, probably the Seneca. 

 On Champlain's map appears a record of " Carintouanis, a nation of 

 the south of the Antouhonrons in a very beautiful and rich country 

 where they are strongly lodged and are friends with all the other 

 nations except the Antouhonrons, from whom they are only three 

 days distant." General Clark thought Spanish hill, south of Wav- 

 erly, was their stronghold. The name "Antouhonrons " is not dis- 

 similar from " Sonontouan," one of the recognized names for the 

 Seneca. Later the Seneca took possession of this region and some 

 of their larger settlements were along the Chemung river and New- 

 town creek. It is likely they claimed the region by virtue of con- 

 quest. Through the work of Ward E. Bryan and L. D. Shoemaker 



1 The Cayuga. 



